Farfel Notebook 03: Leaves 135-222

Francisco Sforza, Duke of Milan enabled the family to settle in Soncino (35 miles east of Milan) in 1454 and, in gratitude, Joshua Solomon, son of Israel b. Samuel changed the family name to that of their adopted home. At first the Sonciri flourished as bankers. In about 1483 they founded a press and engaged Abraham ben Chayyin. In 1488 the 1st complete ed. of the Hebrew bible came from their press. During the last decade of the 15th C conditions is Soncino declined. The new duke of milan, Lodovico Il Moro, renewed ther persecution of the Jews + Joshua Solomon Soncino moved his press to Naples, the only large city where Hebrew printing was tolerated. There he printed the 2nd Hebrew Bible in 1491 or 2. The 1st pages of individual parts have borders by Ayolphusdi Catono. The Neopolitan haven was short lived. In 1492 the French invaded the city + put it to the sword - the entire Jewish community was dissolved. It is assumed taht Joshua S. Sancino was among those who perished. -Translated into Italian by C. Landino from the Latin of Giovanni Simonette. N.Y., E P Dutton 1934 L. Callison - Morley. The Story of the Sforzas London, 1933. St. Ambrose - Milan's patron. Sforza means "force" HEHL 104036 not rubricated leaf 67 Liber Octavvs - begins on leaf 64 COMINCIATA GIA LA GVERRA CONTRA AGIS Liber I - Liber Trigesimus Primus.

His book describes the deeds of Francesco Sforza from 1424 to 1466, the year of the Duke's death. Simonetta was in the service fo the Duke from 1444. He also served under Galeazzo Maria + dedicated his book to Giangaleazzo Maria, Francesco's grandson. (1st ed ? 1482) A 2nd ed. was published in Milan in 1486 + an Italian translation by Landino, commissioned by Lodovico Sforza + submitted to the revision of Simonetta, was in Milan before July 1489 + published there in 1490.

147 March 1983 Dawson's Book Shop $30.00

Jacobus Philippun [Foresti] de Bergamo (Bergamensis) (1434-1504 1520) Supplementum chronicerium. Brescia: Boninue de Boninis T Dec. 1485 Book VIIII leaf 192 390 A.D. Ref: HC 2806 Goff J 209 BMC VII 969. See #209 #463 Cop HEHL, Harv Cl folio. Plate #3 Stanford HaeblerType 5,6 #4 p110

382 leaves 1+20 blank, 24-381 numbered 1-258 on rectors + verses 2 col. in tables 49 lines + headline (year - dates, book numbers, foliation) 227(241)x122 (with marginalia 152 mm) Types 150 G; 93G; 111R (capitals only) heading on 24a Capital spaces. Double rule or inner margins of text + between col. of tables.

The matter additional to that of the 1st ed. (Benalius, Venice - 1483) + taking the anrrative to 1485 begins on 376a.

Type 150 G heading type with ornate capitals 93 G plain text type on large body 111R clear text type modelled on Jenson's roman

The printer bookseller Boninus, in reality Dobrisa Dobric of Rogusa (Dubrovnik) in Dalmatia, maden Yugoslavia, is a very interesting figure in early printing. Having 1st produced a book in Venice with another printer of Dalmatian orgin, Andrea de Paltasichis (Paltasic, from Kotoro) in 1478-79 Boninus later produced richly illustrated Latin + Italian ed. of Valturius Verona in 1483, + in 1487 important illustrated ed. of Dante (the 1st fully illustrated ed), and Aesop at Brascia. -This chrinicle covers the period from Creation to the yr. 1482 + contains may interesting autobiographical passages. -extremely popular "outline of history."

The 2nd 1/2 of the 4th C saw a large scale Gothic invasion across the Danube into the province of Moesia. THere was also a splitting of the gothic hordes into 2 seperate nations. Those who had crossed the Banube into Moesia, later hemed Visigoths, or West GOths, eventually moved on, 1st t. Italy under Alaric, then to southern Gaul, + ultimately into Spain, where they founded a flourishing monarchy that endured till the coming of the Moors in 711. The others, Ostrogoths, or East Goths, remained for a time on the north side of the Danube, under the overlordship of the Huns. Ultimately, they, too, moved, 1st into the Balakans, then into Italy, + est. a short lived empire of their own under Thodoric. 1485(6684) Book 9 contains year 313 (5512 Anno Christi Anno mundi - 554(5753).

p. 192 390 Theodosius senior. Total of 15 Books - Book 8 - Birth of Christ (Ruintusdecimus) Stanford - edition - Venice: Bernardinus Rizus 1492) 3. KA 1492F Goff J. 212 HC 2809

The author was born at Solto near Bergano in 1434, became an Augustinian in 1451, + was subasquently Prior of Imola (1494) + of Forli (1496). He died at Bergamo in 1504. The 1486 ed. the last revised by the author was the 1st to have illustrations.. (H. -C 2807) HEHL - rubricated in red. Liber I first printed listing mundi 15 Anne An xpi edvo =(5184) 5199

Liber XV ends - mundi 6684 xpi 1485

-my leaf 75 nota 7 or Z leaf mundi Book 9 begins 180 313 5512 ends 212 book 10 begins 213 564 5763

148 March 1983 Dawson's Book Shop $2.00 A \ Renaissance\ Caourtesy Book \ Galatco \ of Manners + Behaviours \ by \ Giovanni Delta Casa \ With an Introduction by \ J. E. Spirgarn. Boston: D. B. Updike, Merrymount Press, 1914. (1860-1941) the decorations - W. A. Dwiggins. Colation i-xxviii, 1-22, [123-124] leaf 6 1/8 x 9 1/2" Type Montallegro Binding boards. Rubricated throughout The Humanist's Library (2nd Series) Vol. VIII. The Merrymount Press *408 - Alan Wofsy, 1975. (1893-1949) Montallegro type - acquired in 1904 (no italic) - specially cut for the press - designed by Herbert A. Horne. -designed 3 Types of importance 1) Montallegro - modelled on an early Florentine font + was intended to be a good "reading type." -1st used Merrymount Press in 1905 + since [inserted] "sister types" [end inserted] in the volumes of the Humanists Library. -cut by E. Pm Prince of London - The types of the Kelmscott, Daves, + other English private presses were from his hand, as well as the Florence + Medici fonts. 2)Florence (1907) 3) Riccardi (1909) A series of books issued by the Merrymount Press under the title of the "Humanists Library" illustrates a venture into limited edition publishing. The books according to Updike sold out; but evidently the series was not a complete success because after the 8th Vol. - "A Renaissance Courtesy Book" issued in 1914, no more were printed. For their time they were satisfactory enough, + on a pane with teh books of the private presses that flourished during the 1890 + 1900's. All of these Merrymount items are attractive byt they do not represent the high type which we now associate with the Press.

149 March 1983 Bien wil am See Dr Eithenberger 100 S. F. = $51.28 biblia Germanicea. Bie Bibel *[In the undated West Low German dialect] the Cologne dialect. Colognte: Heinrich Quantell, about 1478 folio Ref: H.3141 Goff B 637 GW 4308 BMC I 264 Cop NYPL, New L X Old Testament (Bartholomaeus von Unkel) Deuteronomy 27, 28 2 col. 57 lines + headlines 292(303)x196mm. 5441. Type 102 3 to 10 line spaces left for capitals The headlines give the name of the book with woodcuts(123) used the 113 cuts from G 636 plua 10 new ones [In the Undated Low Saxon dialect.] Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, about 1478 folio 5421. The 1st + last blank. 2 col. 56-57 lines + headline 296(307)x195mm Type 102 Three to 10+14 line spaces left for capitals, mostly with guide letters. THe headlines give the name of the book with woodcuts (113) + woodcut borders at the beginning of Genesis, Proverbs + Revelation Ref: HC3142 Goff B636 GW4307 BMC I 264 Cop HEHL, PML, NYPL(5)

Type 102 - text type, not used after 1492. Remarkable for numerous alternative forms of majusculs, 4 varieties of C, 3A, M, P, Q, S, T. (1478-1501, Erben bis 1520) Quentell - 1st dated book 1479 (1st press) no book with the date 1483 is known. -Biblia, mit Glossen zu einzelnen Buchern nach den Postillen des Nicolaus de Lyns, misderdeutseh.

For the woodcuts a Cologne illustrated manuscript of 1460 was taken as a model - these illustrations were again used in 1483 by Koberger in the 9th German Bible + again in 1522 in an ed. printed at Halberst adt.